Silvia Acosta named McRobbie Professor in Architecture

Silvia Acosta has been named the inaugural McRobbie Bicentennial Professor in Modern Architecture at the Eskenazi School, endowed by a gift of $500,000 from IU Chancellor and past President Michael McRobbie and First Lady Laurie Burns McRobbie. Acosta’s approach to architectural practice is deeply collaborative and community based.

Where jewelry meets needle craft: Angela Caldwell at Baltimore Jewelry Center

On view at the Baltimore Jewelry Center through July 7, "Women, I Know" features the work of Eskenazi metals and jewelry faculty member Angela Caldwell. The artist deconstructs and reinterprets the quilt as wearable armor to embody the spirit of women and provide support and comfort in the face of adversity.

Comp design students bring children's dream machines to life

Eskenazi comprehensive design students led by senior lecturer Jon Racek collaborated in the second annual MyMachine USA competition to realize working prototypes of children's dream inventions. “We had better ideas working together as a group than if we would have done this all by ourselves," said Jackson, a second grader in Greene County.

B.F.A. Danielle Shum explores intersecting identities in metal

Danielle Shum "never anticipated that [her] story about a curved spine could resonate with so many people." Her brooch "Scoliosis" has won awards for the metalsmithing B.F.A. from the National Society of Arts and Letters and the Society of North American Goldsmiths, and is included in the show "We Are Here" opening June 4 at the Metal Museum in Memphis.

Eskenazi artists explore Indiana's waterways in Ebb and Flow

Two Eskenazi alumni selected for College's 20 Under 40: 2023

A designer and textile artist committed to working at the intersection of design and social impact.  And artist and professor who explores photography within built spaces, assemblage and performance.  Sierra Naomi (B.A. '18, Fashion Design) and Rebecca Drolen (M.F.A. '09, Studio Art) have made the IU College of Arts and Sciences 2023 20 Under 40 list of "amazing alumni." 

Spring Greetings from Dean Faimon

"We could not be prouder of each of our graduate’s accomplishments," writes Faimon. "We are also very proud that the Eskenazi School has been the incubator for their ideas, creations, and personal growth. They have spent their time at this school bringing their humanity to bear – together with all the latest knowledge, tools, and techniques – in problem solving."

Miller M. Arch students reënvision Columbus school

Students in the Eskenazi School Miller M.Arch program have spent the semester conducting research, meeting with stakeholders, and coming up with concepts for the ABC-Stewart Montessori School facility in Columbus.

Birth in 2023: Eskenazi artists weigh in

Just in time for Mother’s Day: Eskenazi faculty and alumni show work in “Lineages of Birth,” a cross-campus and -community project exploring experiences of birth, curated by an Eskenazi alum. In disparate mediums, the artists explore aspects of birth and reproduction that expand and complicate the prevailing narrative.

Nakagawa's photographs stand witness to painful history

In 2022, Eskenazi School faculty Osamu James Nakagawa made a 15,200-mile pilgrimage around the US to photograph the sites where Japanese and Japanese-American people were incarcerated during World War 2. On view at Tokyo's Photo Gallery International May 17-July 1, the work is a reckoning with the artist's own national identity.